Fastpitch4Life wrote:fastpitchdad05 wrote:Fastpitch4Life wrote:So what value does this type of speculation add after the fact? Nothing! Be advised that there are a lot of flat out power hitters out there. I saw it all week on all the teams we played. Maybe the PGF balls are juiced, too!!
Not sure why it matters whether they speculate before or after. The point is still the same...if you're shaving your bat for your kid, odds are in the end, whether the end is the next level of travel or in college, things are going to go very badly for that girl.
Speculating that the level of play in the National Championship is unduly high due to cheating parents is a stretch, in my opinion. Is there a handful of deceitful parents who would do anything to improve their kid's performance? I'm sure there are, but the high level play demonstrated this week doesn't need to be painted with that brush. Cheater's will be caught sooner or later and I'll bet they will be called out by another parent on their team.
I'm not disagreeing with that at all. But I don't think the poster that made the original comment was going as far as to say that all the level of play was "unduly high due to cheating". I took his comment to relay an observation about a few players that seemed to obviously have shaved bats.
I just finished watching the 12U championship and it's obvious that there was a very high level of play. You shouldn't take the OP's comment to mean that he felt everyone was cheating and that the players were not extremely talented.